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Broadband in Parliaments : The Regulatory State & Technological Change
Sutherland, Ewan - 2018
with the lobbying of perators. The issues are economically and technologically complex, with inquiries having to cut … through terminology, economics, lobbying and threats of litigation. The European Parliament scrutinises and adopts framework …
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A Short Note on Brexit : Telecommunications Issues after the Referendum
Sutherland, Ewan - 2016
engagement with business users and consumer groups, not least to counter the expert lobbying of the operators. Additionally, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034908
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Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913 : a new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis
Aidt, Toke; Winer, Stanley L.; Zhang, Peng - 2020
Kingdom between 1820 and 1913 to revisit the Redistribution Hypothesis - the prediction that franchise extension causes an … increase in state-sponsored redistribution. We adopt a novel method of uncovering causality from non-experimental data proposed … compelling evidence that supports the Redistribution Hypothesis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171826
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How Do Interest Groups Influence Elections? Evidence from British Trade Unions 1900-2019
Fouirnaies, Alexander - 2021
Trade unions sponsored the political campaigns of candidates running for office in many countries throughout the 20th century. Yet little is known about the electoral consequences of these sponsorship arrangements. I study how union sponsorship affected the electoral performance of parliamentary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241798
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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? : the Brexit case
Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019
This paper introduces macroeconomic forecasters as political agents and suggests that they use their forecasts to in uence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the future states of the economy and have to rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984037
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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? : the Brexit case
Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019
This paper introduces macroeconomic forecasters as political agents and suggests that they use their forecasts to influence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the future states of the economy and have to rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990008
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Business Associations and Right-Wing Populism
Kinderman, Daniel P. - 2023
-dependent firms and weaken or undermine the lobbying strategies upon which business associations have long relied. Because some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345880
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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case
Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024
This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting outcomes. We model a referendum in which a voter chooses between two policies. The voter relies on a forecaster to learn about the macroeconomic consequences of the policies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583811
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The Curley Effect
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2003
James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116970
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Economic Rents at Heathrow Airport
Starkie, David Nicholas - 2020
The Paper challenges the common supposition that (scarcity) rents at Heathrow airport accrue from airlines charging efficient clearing prices and instead suggests that because of oligopolistic practices, much of the rent at Heathrow is quasi-monopoly rent. It also suggests remedies that could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841197